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ON examining the modes of action of the senses we find a series of advances in refinement. Beginning with touch, we find it has primarily to do with solids which come into direct contact with the organ. In taste a liquid medium is necessary. In smell we have minute particles carried by a gas. In hearing we have vibrations (longitudinal) in a gas. In sight, finally, we find transverse vibrations transmitted by a finer medium, the ether.
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M. A Speculation Regarding the Senses. Nature 21, 323–324 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021323c0
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